LANDON'S POV The more we defeated them, the more they troop in. Even the dead did not die. But what was I expecting, I am fighting with zombies and I should know that their lives are endless, it takes more than a single strike to bring them down. We are winning them and I and Lalic had not suffered any injury from them. It was a great battle and has climaxed to its peak. No, it has been at its peak since we started. It has been a tug of war ever since we pulled out our swords. At a point, I was afraid that Lalic would be exhausted. He had never had to hold on for this long before. In fact, this is his first real fight. What will become of me if something was to happen to Lalic, what would I tell the queen? Will she ever be able to pardon me if any harm should come to her son? Thinking of this, I said to Lalic. “Boy, draw back, and let me shield you” “They are getting many and fiercer. I think they would be able to pull in on us if I should relent. The force would be just too much for you” he replied. “Okay, whatever happens, their sword should get to me. Don’t try to protect me, and don’t get hurt” I had to agree with him. More zombies are trooping in and we need all the hands we can get. “I should be the one to get hurt, uncle Landon. I can handle their blood and it is nothing to me. You should not get hurt” he said and in the process used his sword to dismantle a zombie into many shreds. The boy is fierce and ruthless with his sword. “How sure are you about that? You have never fought a zombie before” I asked and kicked off a zombie that was holding on to my legs and trying to pull me to the ground. “I know already, my blood is immune to them. I have strong resistant blood and you know it” he replied. “I do, but it will affect you at least for the time being and I don’t want that to happen,” I said. Even if he can resist the blood of the zombies, it might take him more than two days to recover and I fear that the witch might capture him at the point he is down and do whatever she wants with him then. He might never be able to make it through her captivity. “Nothing will happen. We just have to fight more. There is no way she can have such amount of zombies that cannot all be killed. If we fight more fiercely, we will soon bring them all down” he encouraged. Armed with his courage, we continued to fight, and I kept rotating the sword between my hands as long usage of a particular hand was beginning to tell on me, and in order not to get easily exhausted, then I must continue to shuffle the sword between my hands. I am so grateful that Lara had gone on with the fortification when I informed her of my intention to come here. If she had not insisted on fortifying Lalic and me, then I wonder what would have become of us in the hands of the zombies. “Lalic watch...” I called and jumped to his front to prevent a dagger from getting to him. While he was grossly engaged in a fight with two zombies, a third zombie had wanted to attack him from behind and if I had not been fast enough, he would have gotten him. The battle was getting more gruesome, and it seems we are losing against them. We were fortified against fighting with humans, we never envisaged fighting with zombies. Oh fairest moon goddess, for the sake of the mate bond, please send us helpers, and don’t let us die in the hands of this witch. I prayed fervently. BETA TIM’S POV I don’t care what becomes of Landon, but if I don’t act fast something horrible might happen to the little prince. Of a truth, we don’t need this fight, all we need is to sacrifice Dawn and get this done with. We want to make the queen weak and bring her down to her feet and killing Dawn would bring about this. However, killing the prince might be counter-productive, why doesn’t Mildrid see it the same way with me? We know what happened when we got her King, getting her prince should be even worse. As much as I would like to ignore the fight and act like it is not my business, the beta wolf in me could not just sit back and watch this craze bring doom to my Pack. I have to bring the prince out of there. I need not stop the fight, but the queen should have her prince when she comes. With this thought in me, I rushed off to the battle arena and shoved off the zombies that were already on the prince and trying hard to get their teeth on him. I succeeded in doing so and brought them far away from the prince giving the prince ample opportunity to readjust himself and continue in the fight. After this, I rushed in again and tried to pull the prince away from the battle arena. I had almost succeeded in doing so when I felt a hard slap on my face. I had never been hit like this before, not even by a wolf. My eyes were immediately bloodshot and all I could see was darkness without more. Having lost my stamina, I staggered, and soon found myself on the ground and the prince was back in the fight. “What do you hope to achieve by this?” I heard the angry voice of Mildrid.I forced my eyes open and saw Mildrid on top of me. She had me pinned to the ground with her hand to stop me from rising. “The prince, but.., he is not a part of this” I protested. “Did I force him here?” she asked in a sinister manner. “The queen... all we have to do is kill Dawn... not the prince” I begged. She grinned and pressed my throat tightly with her other hand, making me choke in the process. Nevertheless, as this was going on, I did not try to pull away from her, I am already tired of the whole thing and might as well die now and rest from all of this. She whispered into my ear. “You want to be a hero now?” she grinned. “It is too late, Tim, wake up already. Enough harm had been done by you and I am the only one by your side ready to give you all you want. It is too late and the earlier you accept that and reclaim all that is yours, the better for you” I nodded in acceptance. She has done too much for me, just that I am not accustomed to her ways of doing justice which warranted my protest in the first instance. Seeing that I have finally submitted and was eager to bend to her will, she let go of me and I stood up feeling muddled. By now, the battle has changed cause and the duo is fully on top of it. If nothing is done now, they will soon wipe out all our zombies. I was so foolish, I tried to save them whereas all they are bent on doing is to destroy my most precious creatures showing them no mercy. I thought to save them, but they strive to destroy me and are merciless about it.